title: Integrating a mobile health setup in a chronic disease management network.
abstract: Supporting self management of chronic disease in collaboration with primary healthcare has been a national priority in order to mitigate the emerging disease burden on the already strained healthcare system. However, in practice, the uptake of self-management programs and compliance with clinical guidelines remain poor. Time constraints due to work commitments and lack of efficient monitoring tools have been the major barrier to the uptake and compliance. In this paper, we present a newly integrated mobile health system with a clinical chronic disease management network called cdmNet, which has already been validated to facilitate General Practitioners (GPs) to provide collaborative disease management services. The newly integrated solution takes advantage of the latest mobile web and wireless Bluetooth communication techniques to enable patients to record health data entries through ubiquitous mobile phones, and allows the data to be simultaneously shared by multidisciplinary care teams. This integration would enable patients to self-manage their chronic disease conditions in collaboration with GPs and hence, improve the uptake and compliance. Additionally, the proposed integration will provide a useful framework encouraging the translation of innovative mobile health technologies into highly regulated healthcare systems.
authors.affiliation: The Australian E-Health Research Centre, CSIRO ICT Centre, Brisbane, Australia.
authors.forename: Hang
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ding
authors.forename: Derek
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Ireland
authors.forename: Rajiv
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Jayasena
authors.forename: Jamie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Curmi
authors.forename: Mohan
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Karunanithi
mesh_terms: D040421:Cell Phone; D002908:Chronic Disease / Q000628:therapy*; D019468:Disease Management; D006292:Health Priorities; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D008952:Mobile Health Units; D011320:Primary Health Care; D012648:Self Care; D059015:Wireless Technology